Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment..
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
Here at M Group Water, our mission is to be the leading service provider in the Water and Waste Water Infrastructure sectors in the UK. We are known for our commitment to integrity and safety, with a culture that values the well-being and diversity of our people. Our aim is to invest in our workforce through our training academy and implement initiatives that prioritise health and well-being to support our business growth plans.
M Group Water are proud to be a key partner on the Caledonia Water Alliance and will successfully and safely work with Scottish Water to jointly deliver SR21, a six-year water and wastewater infrastructure pan Scotland capital investment programme.
M Group Water is currently looking to recruit a Operative to work on our Caledonia Water Alliance contract based in Glasgow.
As a General Operative, you'll be working within our Site Delivery Team who are responsible for the construction, testing and commissioning of several large projects.
Due to the nature of this role you'll need to be able to excavate trenches, placing pipe bedding material, laying, and jointing pipes, backfilling and compacting trenches, mix and lay concrete, operate machinery, using equipment such as drills and pumps and move and unload materials and you'll work under the instruction and supervision of Gangers, Foremen and General Foreman.
We'll teach you how to operate various site plant and other construction site vehicles as well as acting as a Banksman all whilst keeping the site tidy and looking after tools and equipment.
You'll also need to;
- Provide assistance to the site team which may include a number of varied tasks.
- You'll work in a safe manner with consideration towards fellow workers and members of the public who you may come into contact with during our work
- Handle any fencing work, earthworks, construction of pipeline chambers and assisting skilled workers, for example joiners or bricklayers.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience within a civil construction environment ideally with both wastewater and clear water is important.
- Do you have experience in Roads, Street works and cross-country pipeline construction?
- Do you hold a valid UK driving license? This is needed for the role.
- Are you or have you been a NRSWA operative?
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Standby / Overtime / Call out
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- Personal Accident Cover
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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